Rinder v. City of Madison
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: A. H. Reid, Judge. The action is brought by the plaintiff as county treasurer of Dane county against the defendants upon the bond of the city treasurer furnished to the county treasurer and conditioned for the payment of the county and state taxes.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: A. H. Reid, Judge. The action is brought by the plaintiff as county treasurer of Dane county against the defendants upon the bond of the city treasurer furnished to the county treasurer and conditioned for the payment of the county and state taxes. The plaintiff is and was county treasurer and the defendant Carl Moe is and was city treasurer and the other individual defendants are the bondsmen of the city treasurer. The city of Madison is a municipal corporation having no prospective state highways within its corporate limits. At…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebtsokeR, J.
The city of Madison and its treasurer claim in justification of the refusal to pay the county the sum of $41,297.07 collected by the city and now in the treasurer’s possession as a tax on the taxable property of the city that parts of the provisions of secs. 1317??? — 1 to 1317??? — 15, Stats., under which the tax was levied by the county, are in conflict with the state constitution and therefore void. This tax was collected pursuant to a levy of the Dane county board to raise a county highway fund under the provisions of this lav/. It appears that this amount had been apportioned and…
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